July 22, 2009 11:22AM 

# The Difference between the Health Care Systems in Canada and the U.S. 

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Sally C. Pipes understands Canadian health care. As the former assistant director of the free-market [Fraser Institute](http://www.fraserinstitute.org/), she lived under Canada’s national health care system and has researched it extensively.

The Canadian experience with national health care has produced waiting lines, rationed care and has not produced the preventive and patient-focused care that it has promised, says Pipes, who is now president of the [Pacific Research Institute](http://liberty.pacificresearch.org/) and author of the new book, *[The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care](http://www.amazon.com/Top-Myths-American-Health-Care/dp/1934276111).*

She [spoke at the Cato Institute](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=6308) July 15, 2009.

For market-based solutions to health care reform, visit [Health​care​.Cato​.org](http://healthcare.cato.org/).

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